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Children's Embassy Megjashi [Macedonia] – 20 years growing with the children
an article by Children's Embassy Megjashi (abridged)
Video: Megjashi - Documentary film
. . . The First Children's Embassy in the World -
Megjashi marks the jubilee - 20 years since the
establishment. In the past two decades it cares,
helps and supports the children and fights for the
protection of their rights.
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- 20 years ago, when we gathered to help the
refugee children from Bosnia and Herzegovina we
did not know what we are getting in with all our
hearts and what the challenges we will confront.
But faced with them and we learned. It was not
easy to trace the path of the new children's
movement in Macedonia, called the First Children’s
Embassy in the world – “Megjashi". However, the
children recognized us and entrust us with the
need to protect and defend them. We spoke publicly
for many problems they are facing and increased
the public awareness about the importance and the
necessity of respecting the rights of the child-
said MA. Dragi Zmijanac, founder and executive
director of "Megjashi" at the ceremony on the
occasion of the jubilee that was held in the Drama
Theatre on April 27.
Megjashi’s ambasador," Kole Angelovski, hopes that
in the next 20 years the First Children’s Embassy in
the World – Megjashi will be the conscience of this
society and this country in terms of the treatment
and care for children.
- We got up to the 20th anniversary and we don’t
know how because in all those urgent requests for
assistance to children affected by the war,
children who were abused, tortured, raped ... we
didn’t think of numbers of jubilees, simply we did
not have time for that. In order to avoid
forgetting those important dates, The First
Children’s Embassy in the World – Megjashi was
sending press releases to the media and addressed
the importance of working with and for the
children. But when the year 2012 started being
implied, we realized that something had to be
done, the former children (members, volunteers and
refugees) were expecting us to gather them, like
when parents gather their children for their
birthday. They started seeking each other on the
social networks, especially the former refugee
children and the volunteers and started asking
about when they can meet. Is there a better moment
for such gathering than the jubilee that is
knocking at the door? Great feeling but a
responsibility as well. – said Gordana Pirkovska –
Zmijanac, the creator of this children’s movement
. . .
On the celebration, the documentary film "20 years
of the First Children’s Embassy in the world –
Megjashi” was presented, which despite the
dramatic images and indicated information regards
the conditions in which some members of the most
vulnerable group in our society – the children
live, ended with an optimistic message, "We
continue ".
Since Dragi Zmijanac wished for the next big
anniversary, the 30th anniversary, to mark only
the good news in the lives of the children, the
activities of the embassy continue in this
direction.
In the lobby of the theater, the numerous guests
from all fields of social life, friends of
"Megjashi" were able to look at the exhibition of
children's drawings, which was prepared by the
students from elementary schools in the country,
and everything was sweetened with a lovely cake
with Megjashi’s logo.
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